The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1887-09-03

there won't be a shoveliul Of Goals left
for any Of the fires. let alone the en-
gine.
Then don't you think says she,
in her soft voice, that IT would be
wise plan 10 get all the passengers to-
gether in one car, and keep a good
fire up there, and let the other stoves
90 out? It's no matter il we are
little crowded says she.
well. of course, it was the only
thing % do, as we see at once when it
was put into our heads. We took the
car the sick lady was in, SOS she'd not
have 30 be disturbed, and we made up
beds for the children. and somehow all
the passengers managed 10 pack in,
train hands and ALL II was tight
squeeze but that didn't matter so
much, because the weather was so
awfully cold.
THAT was the way come to see so
much Of the young lady. hadn't
any thing 10 keep me about the engine.
50 kind Of detailed myself off 10 wait
on her She was l~sy all day long
doing things for the rest It's queer
! how peoples characters come out at
such times. We got 10 know all about
each other People stopped sir-ing
and ma aiming and being polite, and
showed for just what they were worth.
! The selfish ones, and the shrks, and
the towards, and the mean cusses who
wanted TO blame some one for sending
! tho weathcr-thcre want no use for
any OF them 10 try TO hide themselves
! any more than the other kind The
women, rs a rule. bore it better than
the men. II comes natural. suppose
| for a woman 10 be kind Of silent Il
pale and patient when she's suffering.
But the young lady wasn't that sort
! either. She was as bright rs a button
all along. You'd have supposed from
her face that she was having just the
best kind Of time!
IL can see her now, standing before
the stove roasting jack-rabbits for the
others supper Some Of the gentle
men had reyolycrs. and when the
snow got crusted over SOS they could
walk on it, they used TO shoot 'em.
And we were glad enough of every
one shot, provisions were so scanty.
The last two days them rabbits and
7now-watcr melted in a pail over the
stove was all we had 10 eat or drink"
IL suppose there was nothing for
you TO do but wait. - said Miss Vaughn.
"No, ma am, there wasn't nothing
at all for me TO do but help the young
lady now and then. She let me help
| her more than the rest, | used TO think.
| She'd come 10 me and say, Mr.. Scott,
| this rabbit is for You and the conduct
or She never forgot anybody-ex-
| cept herself Once she asked me to
hold the sick little girl while she took
a sleep. 1t was mighty pretty always
! To see her with them children. Ihcy
never seemed to have enough Of her.
All of them wanted that she should
put them 10 bed. and sing to them,
and tell them stories Sometimes
she'd have all five swarming over her
at once. | used to watch them
"Wcll. how did it end?" asked Miss
Vaughn rs the engineers voice, which
| had gradually grc~xn lowor aud more
| dreamy, came TO stop.
"Eh? What? OH rousing himself
at ended when three locomotives and
relief train from Cheyenne broke
through TO us on the eighth day after
we were blockadcd. They brought
provisions and coal, and we got on
first-rate after that Did the sick lady
die? No. ma am She was living,
when | last heard of her, down to
Santa Barbara. Two years ago that
was
"And what became -,f your young
lady?'
"She left ut Sacramento. Her BROTH
! or or some one was down TO meet her.
saw him q moment He didn't look
! like her"
'And you never saw her again?
You never heard her name?'
No, ma am; | p.vcr did
Tho engineers voice was gruf and
husky rs he said this. He shovelcd in
coal with needless energy.
Are you n married man?" asked
Miss Vaughn. The question sounded
abrupt even to herself, but seemed
relevant to something in her mind.
"No."
John Scott looked her squarely in
the face rs he replied His countenanco
was rather grim and set. and for a
moment she feared that she had offend
ed him. Then. as he met her deprecat-
ing gaze, he reassured her with a swift
! smile.
mo. ma am, ] amt; and never
shall be, as | know of." he added
"Second-rate wouldn't satisfy me now.
| guess" He pulled the cord which
hung ready to his hand and a long
scrccching whistle rang out over the
plain. and sent the prairie dogs scut-
Ting into their burrows.
This is feeding station we're